Offer HN: 100 downloads of your free iPhone app. Help solve chicken/egg problem.
Currently in the middle of relaunching and refocusing on my startup (www.adsreloaded.com) this winter quarter while taking a little less of a workload in school.<p>The site is much like Y-Combinator backed tapzilla. I provide downloads for iPhone app developers and pay users to try apps. Currently I have 550 people "signed up" but only about 30 who are active. In the next 3 weeks I would like to push that number up to around 100 active people downloading apps. So far since relaunch I have had 1 paying developer and have 2 more out soon but I really am having some difficulty solving the "chicken and the egg" problem here. Developers want more downloads and users want more apps before they sign up.<p>So here is the offer: I'll start a $10 campaign for your free iPhone app (That's 100 downloads) for absolutely free. If you have a paid app we can work out a special offer as well. You get a small number of downloads while helping out a young startup get its footing again.<p>Please contact me on adsreloaded.com or my e-mail address found on my HN profile. Thanks HN :)
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Ok; that'll solve the chicken problem -- do you need people for the egg side of the equation? I, for one, would be interested in providing free feed back on iPhone apps. (150 - 200 words per app.)
The idea is to solve for one side of the equation "the chicken" before focusing on the egg problem, but yes I will need more "eggs" as well.
Currently you don't have to provide feedback in order to get apps for free on the service but I am currently exploring a service that provides usability/feedback for a fee from app developers. We will see how it works out and if there is a market for this soon.
Currently you don't have to provide feedback in order to get apps for free on the service but I am currently exploring a service that provides usability/feedback for a fee from app developers. We will see how it works out and if there is a market for this soon.
I'd do it, how much is the pay?
For the users or app developers?
For users you get a minimum of 10 cents for an app and for paid apps the minimum payout is the price of the app itself.
For users you get a minimum of 10 cents for an app and for paid apps the minimum payout is the price of the app itself.
Does this apply to Android apps as well, or is this iPhone-specific?
Currently only iPhone specific sadly. I hope to expand horizontally eventually but want to move the needle in one market before I do that.